"Delete Track" deletes entire album in Tidal

James_Heckman · August 10, 2019, 4:26pm

I realize this topic has appeared in Forums before, but I am still having trouble with it. Last night, listening to an album in Tidal I wanted to delete one track from it. This was easy enough, but after deleting the track, in a few seconds the whole album was deleted. I tried Hide Track, but nothing happened. The album was not favorited, but one song on it was, if that matters. Would appreciate help. Thank you.
Jim Heckman

drdaveol · August 10, 2019, 8:49pm

I believe if I added the whole album, I have had trouble deleting one track.
Also if it was added in a Tidal Collection, I believe the whole album will delete

James_Heckman · August 12, 2019, 7:02pm

yes, that’s my experience. Essentially “Delete Track” doesn’t work.

philr · August 13, 2019, 2:17am

Would banning the track do what you want?

Track playback 'issues'

Our product is built around the queue, which makes it easy to select a few albums to play in a row without having to create a playlist.

Anything you play is added to the queue, so if you click individual tracks, only that track is queued. To play a whole album, you just need to click “Play Album” and then all the tracks will be added to the queue.

If there are tracks on album you never want queued (like an intro, or a skit, or a really bad song), you can use our Ban feature – just click the heart twice and the song will be banned.

If you only want to play some songs on an album, you can also right-click (or press and hold on touch) to select the songs you want to play.

A lot of this is focused on playing full albums, so definitely let us know if you feel this isn’t meeting your needs.

James_Heckman · August 13, 2019, 5:52pm

Phil,
Sincere thanks for this. I didn’t know about the Ban feature–sorry if I should have known about this. I just tried it and it seems to work (I’ll know for sure when listening next time), and is in fact a lot easier than going through the “Delete Track” process. (I still don’t know what “Delete Track” will do, but I don’t care now that Ban seems to work for what I need.) Again, many thanks.
Jim Heckman

James_Heckman · August 13, 2019, 6:08pm

David,
I assume you’ve seen Phil’s response below about the Ban feature. It seems to solve the problem.
Jim Heckman